I was very impressed with the BCLUW school visit to learn about their 1:1 initiative on November 14, 2013. Principal Cari Teske led an informative session explaining all the relevant details about how they moved through the process. Mary Ascher, teacher librarian and technology integrationist, was also a model of meeting the needs of students and teachers.
I had the opportunity to visit a social studies classroom in the afternoon. Students were working independently / and in groups on a project about the decade of the 1960s. I was curious about the resources they used. They were using primarily free websites for their research. During informal conversation I was able to ask about their source evaluation. Students reported that they felt comfortable assessing the accuracy or bias of websites used, basing their rationale on other sites they'd viewed.
The teacher was a great proponent of inquiry learning. One note from the teacher when I asked about resources used was that he recalled the history databases he'd used while a student at UNI. He thought the decades approach the students were using would also be benefited by databasees similar to those from his undergraduate program.
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